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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: compiler benchmark comparisons (was: naval systems)
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andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu (Dan Andreatta) wrote in message news:<338040f8.0202271819.373f733a@posting.google.com>...
> OK, just to be into this benchmarck craze, I did a few tests w/ gcc
> and family.
> These are the results, using GCC 2.95 (mingw) and gnat 3.13p on a PII
> 666MHz w/ NT 4.0:
...
> The programs are 1000 loops like:
> 
> for i in 1..100 loop
>   ada.text_io.put_line( Integer'Image(i) );
> end loop;
> for i in 1..100 loop
>   ada.text_io.put_line( Integer'Image(i) );
> end loop;
> ....

So basicly you are testing the speed of the program's I/O facility? I
suppose someone somewhere might care about that, but I/O is already so
slow compared to everything else that it doesn't really make much
difference to anyone. Add to that the fact that Ada has many other
options when it comes to I/O (including using C's I/O), and it means
less than nothing.